Prize(s) Winners in Stage Lighting
Lighting Design/Product Company EO project / Jésica Elizondo
Lead Designers Jésica Elizondo
Client CUATRO X CUATRO
Photo Credits Paulina Cervantes
Other Credits Directed by Shantí Vera.
Completion Date September 2023
Project Location Mexico City. Sala Miguel Covarrubias, Centro Cultural Universitario.
Entry DescriptionLEIB it is an investigation that places the body as the first territory of sensitive. We understand space as a body, we understand light as a body for the creation of a space meant to be inhabited thought and sensitive encounter with the other, with the world. This exploration unfolds a map containing four questions: what can a body do?; what does a body desire?; what can a body withstand? what does a body forget? These questions weave between the abstraction of Spinoza and Nietzsche and the tangible dimension related to the knowledge cultivated by members of collectives of searchers of missing persons in Mexico, a knowledge that dissolves the borders between empirical, mystical and metaphysical experience and science; between intuition and technique, between presentiment and knowledge.
LEIB is a CONJURO (incantation) that harnesses artistic practice as the ideal territory for growth, it tries to summon polyvocal and collective corporealities that whisper with the wind, with dreams, with the night, with trees and flowers, with the sun; it finds in dance the vital place where another world is possible or, at least, the way to perceive it and relate to it. LEIB is an CONJURO for all the people who have disappeared to return home. LEIB is a strategy of sensitive organization, stemming from bodies in motion to manifest a different, possible world.
Sustainability ApproachThe core of this project is the desire for our society as a whole to prosper, creating an environment where each person can reach their full potential, leading to economic and environmental sustainability. We advocate for the ability of Mexican society to sustain itself over time and space. It involves maintaining an equitable and just social environment where each individual can live with dignity, enjoying fundamental rights and the opportunity for personal development. This strategy advocates for systemic change that prioritizes people and the planet in all decision-making processes.
In addition for several years in our productions, we have applied a circular economy model in the consumption of materials to create our designs. This not only extends the life of existing products but also allows us to engage in a deeper artistic exploration of each element.
Company DescriptionStage lighting artist, born in Mexico City. She likes to think of her work as part of an investigation of the processes of transformation and enabling space-time in the living arts. Her work focuses on space conceptualization and light creation with special interest in other types of bodies that contain choreographic knowledge. LIT LIGHTING DESIGN AWARDS WINNER 2022 & 2021, runner up at The WIL Award 2021, honorable Mention LIT Lighting Design Awards 2020 and three-time winner of the Best Lighting Design of the National Prize for Contemporary Choreographic Creation in 2019, 2011 and 2008.
